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TIME FOR BLACKMAGIC

Presenter Damian Allen

Damian Allen is well known in the visual effects industry as a leading technique and technology consultant. As president of Pixerati, he provides creative consulting, pipeline & software development, and digital supervision & compositing for studios in Hollywood and abroad. Throughout over 20 years in the industry, Damian has worked on everything from quick-turnaround broadcast projects to tentpole blockbusters. He is currently focused on the development of machine-learning and VR-based design tools for the creation of visual effects and animation.

Fusion 9 is a massive new release with features specifically designed for the latest virtual reality, visual effects, motion graphics, and 3D workflows! The entirely new VR toolset makes Fusion indispensable for virtual reality projects, while new camera and planar tracking features make it possible to precisely track and composite objects while maintaining perspective and camera motion. Fusion 9 also includes delta keyer, with advanced image science that makes it the world’s most advanced keyer. In addition, you also get Studio Player which includes new multi user collaboration tools for tracking and managing shots, along with version history, annotation notes and more!

Presenter Kays Al-Atrakchi

For over two decades Kays Al-Atrakchi has been contributing his talent to various aspects of filmmaking. From co-founding a successful post-production facility in Orlando, Florida, and working with the The Blair Witch Project team, to participating on a number of acclaimed shows for major studios and networks.

As a colorist, Kays has worked on narrative shorts, commercials and features including Victor Crowley, the latest film in Adam Green’s successful Hatchet franchise.

About Resolve 14: Originally designed for Hollywood’s elite colorists, DaVinci Resolve has been used on more feature films and TV shows than anything else because it lets you create images that are simply impossible with other tools. DaVinci is also the world’s fastest growing and most advanced editing software! Now, with DaVinci Resolve 14, you get incredible new Fairlight audio tools specifically designed for film and television post production.

Fusion 9— The latest version of the VFX, compositing, 3D and motion graphicssoftware includes entirely new keyer technology, planar tracking, camera tracking,multi-user collaboration tools, new VR tools, and more. The software beganshipping in August 2017 and is available for free (Fusion 9) or for $299 (Fusion 9Studio.) For more information: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20170801-01

DaVinci Resolve 14– The latest version of the professional editing and color gradingsoftware includes a whole new audio post production suite with Fairlight audio builtin, up to 10 times faster performance improvement, hundreds of new features forcolorists and editors, and new multi-user collaboration tools that let multiple peopleedit, color and mix audio from multiple systems, all in the same project at the sametime. The software began shipping last week and is available for free (DaVinciResolve 14) or for $299 (DaVinci Resolve 14 Studio.) For more information:https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/media/release/20170907-02

DMALA - November 14, 2017 - Join us!

Thanks to all of our sponsors, we will have the usual gifts and door prizes. To find out more, visit the registration website - we will update that regularly.

- your friends at DMALA / Digital Media Artists Los Angeles /

HOLY CRAP - THERE'S MORE THAT WE WANT YOU TO BE A PART OF AT THE NEXT MEETING TOO!

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WORDPRESS NEEDS YOU

We've launched a new look for the DMALA website. Currently, the direct URL is http://dmala.wordpress.com. We'll be moving back to HermosaWave once we start to build this up. Got any ideas? We wanna hear 'em.

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OUR AWESOME SPONSORS ACTUALLY SPONSOR YOU...

YES! Part of our evening is going to feature our door prize drawing. Everyone who comes gets a ticket.The prizes are offered by the companies who help you make your work better - please click on their links and check out their gear.

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